Federal prosecutor in Bay City honored for Indian Country work

Roy R. Kranz, an assistant U.S. Attorney in Bay City, recently received an honor from the U.S. Department of Justice for his work in prosecuting criminals in Michigan’s Indian Country.

Kranz was given the DOJ’s 30th Executive Office for United States Attorneys’ Director’s Award for his “tenacious and unmatched enthusiasm” for prosecution of violent crime, particularly on the Isabella Reservation in Isabella County.

The DOJ noted that since Kranz started at the U.S. Attorney’s office in 2009, prosecutions on the Reservation have increased from two in the years before he arrived to 78 cases.

Kranz served as chief assistant prosecutor for Isabella County from 1998 to 2009.